[NewMusic] Dying Industry...(sic)

[J. Segel]

> >>>The problem is that we've over-convenienced the industry, and made 
> music much less of a difficult commodity to get. 
> The lowering of demand 

...and increase of supply. that was the revolution of DIY (we won! yay. all our
socialist values end up marginalizing us in the modern capitalism!)*
biggest problems that i experience with the overabundance is the prospect of
wading through it all to find what's decent. i really hope kfjc is bringing me
the cream of the crop, i certainly am not trusting the djs on kalx and kusf as
much lately. but i'm talking about "rock" music here mostly. something that was
a staple of the industry (bands and that sort of thing.)
i'm wondering about several things in this situation. one is, how can we
deliver non-cd music to radio and will that work anyway...? are we basically
just emailing MDs now to say "listen to the mp3s on this url"?
are they set up to play music that way yet?
my intitial backlash response to the other major death of the cd article was to
start thinking about makign vinyl again.. perhaps purists will fetishize the cd
also. i think i'll try to press at least a couple hundred of whatever i can
still, if only for fetishists.

apropos of this, i was listening to wolfgang's vault the other day (i recently
discovered that doing graphic work for people allows one to actually listen to
music while working. honestly, i never had that experience as everything always
involved working with sound! crap. i'm giving up on that music making stuff)
and was listening to old shows from the fillmore east and west. one thing that
struck me was that rock musicians in their 20s or early 30s were pretty good
back in the late 60s. clapton was even good then. so, was it musical training
in schools? was it practice time? cuz, man, the bands now that are sent up and
over the peak of popularity to has-been land before the players are 30, they
really suck. most of the musicians are just plain not good. i've been playing
(rock) music all my life and i only feel like i've become a decent guitar
player when over 40. that fucking violin is gonna take a lot longer. the kind
of music we are trying to pull off in the creative/non-commercial/improv world
has the ability to hide technique in favor of creativity, but that ability
always shines when it's there. it's no wonder that the entertainment industry
that abhors age and aging has kept the more experimental and creative music out
of the ears of the public: the people that do it well are old(er). 


*and other revolutions we won: microbrews, good coffee, good bagels;
essentially college culture gone universal, along with the dorm room bands. the
result? killian's red, starbucks, noah's. etc.


MAGNETIC --- Jonathan Segel 
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